The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The grinding stone bit into the dried foxglove, a purple dust rising like the ash of a burnt letter, and the smell of it, that cloying, sweet rot, was the first thing I knew in the damp dark of the cellar. I am forty years old, and my hands, which have held the lives of half the parish in their tinctures, trembled not from the cold but from the hollow ache in my belly, for I had not eaten since...

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